intubate
English
editEtymology
editc. 1884, Back-formation from intubation.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɪntjʊbeɪt/; (yod-coalescence) /ˈɪntʃʊbeɪt/, /ˈɪntʃəbeɪt/
Audio (Southern England); /ˈɪntʃʊbeɪt/: (file)
- (General American, yod-dropping) IPA(key): /ˈɪntʊbeɪt/, /ˈɪntəbeɪt/
Verb
editintubate (third-person singular simple present intubates, present participle intubating, simple past and past participle intubated)
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a tube into.
- The doctor is about to intubate the patient's trachea.
- 1886 July 6, J. K. White, “HINTS IN PRACTICE”, in Canadian Practitioner:
- you have no right to withhold it, unless you intubate. Intubation of the larynx I have never tried, but I have a tube ready in my office ever since I read an article on it a short time ago
Derived terms
editTranslations
editto insert a tube into
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Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editintubate
- inflection of intubare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editintubate f pl
Spanish
editVerb
editintubate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of intubar combined with te
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